A —— DEATHS, On Friday morning the Rev. D. R. P. Barry, formerly pastor of the Union Pastorate of the Central Penn's Synod of the Lutheran church, and for the past seven years located at Hartleton, passed out of this life, at his late residence in Belinsgrove. He had been a sufferer from gastric trouble for about one year and was compelled, on account of falling health, to resign and retire from the active service of the ministry, his resignation taking effect on May 31st, About four weeks ago he moved, with his family, to Selinsgrove, where he had planned to spend the remain- der of his days, Rev. Barry was born at Bpruce Creek, Huntingdon County, January 20th, 1840. There he spent his early ‘life and for a time worked as an iron maker, but later taught school When the war broke out, he volun- teered and enlisted for three years service, being first a private in Co. M, Ninth Regiment, Penn’a Vol. Caval- ry. He was promoted to the rank of 20d Lieut, Co. D, of the seme regi- ment and served in that capacity un- til a few months before the close of the war, when it became necessary, owing to broken health, for him to resign. He was married to Rebecca Kuhn, of Spruce Creek, May 4th, 1864, while home on a veterau furlough, To this union were born eight children, six girls, May, Myrtle, Cora, Busannsah Berte and Olive, who survive him and live at home, also two sons, Fred- erick W,, pastor of the Penns Valley Lutheran charge, and E. Bliss, who preceded him to the heavenly home about six years ago, having died os typhoid fever im the Passavaut Hospital in Pittsburgh, There also survive the wife, and a brother, James F., of Altoona; and a sister, Mrs, Mary Anderson, of Seattle, Washing- ton. In the year 1872, Rev, Barry enteced Missionary Institute, now Burquehan- na University, Belinsgrove, for the purpose of preparing for the gospel winistry. He was ordained ss a min. ister in the Lutheran Church in 1875, *The Vacuous Life, People without any fdrm of religion, without superstition, devold of any thought of the future state, have been found to the interior forests of Suma. tra, according to Dr. Wilhelm Volz, the geologist of the University of Breslau, who made extensive journeys though the island. There he found the Kubus, as he named them, who are scarcely to be distinguished from the small maniike ape of the Indo-Malayan countries. They are wanderers through the forest seeking food. property. They are simply collectors. They suflicient nuts, growths to keep them alive. bus wage very little small amount of animal life in silent and somber land. The only no tion he could get from them of a dif- ference between a live and a dead per- | son was that the dead do not breathe, | He infers that they are immeasurably inferior to the paleolithie man of Eu- rope who fashioned tools and hunted big game with his flint tipped arrow and knife. Intellectual atrophy is the result of the Kubus' environment. The words they know are almost as few ns the ideas they try to express.—Chicago News, not hunters, but Golf and a Prince. “Golf has its humors,” sald a cham. pion player. “And this struck me par- ticularly In a conversation at a golf club that I once had with a Persian prince. The prince, as he sat on the club azza watching the various champions drive off. drawled: “+ don't see very much in golf object is to be gained by the deposit- fng of a white ball In a subterranean cavity, and if any object were to | gained the shortest and surest method would surely be to carry the ball the hand from cavity to cavity. ‘‘But, prinee” 1 sald. ‘the diffienlty of getting the ball as you call them, the attraction of the } ‘ “The difficulty co nstitutes the at traction, eh? The wed “Well, he went on, ‘it would be more difficult to shave with a coal sh i than a razor, but I don’t think many men are tempted on that account remove thelr ben *h moral that way.’ "—Exchange, No into the eavithk Is what constitu prince fr rd ond i “A Undertakers. MEN OF WEIGHT. Were Under 200 Pounds. On Aug. 10, 177 ton and ten other officers of the Revo- Point, N. ¥X., served in an item from the English magazine Notes and Queries. Only The heaviest was Colonel whose 310 pounds made him General Knox, at 280, by thirty-nine pounds, but Knox was only twenty-eight years old. Then follow Colonel Michael Jack- son, 252; Colonel Henry Jackson, 238; Genera] Lincoln, then forty-five years old, 224; Ideutenant Colonel Hum- phreys, 221; Iieutenant Colonel Hun- tington, 212. General Washington, forty-six years old, weighed 200 pounds and was fol- lowed at quite an interval by Lieuten- ant Colonel Cobb and General Hun- tington, who weighed 182 pounds each, It is amusing to note that the heavi- est man's name was Swift and that of the Hghtest General Greaton, who is credited with 160 pounds, 163 less than The total weight of the eleven, 2.483% omitted the other 217 poun 1s They were certainly men of weight and substance and a heavy team--if we may compare them with a modern football eleven—that might well chal- lenge comparison also with our mod- ern military men. ———————— When your child hss whooping careful to keep the cough loose and expectoration essy by giv- ing Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as may be required. This remedy will also liquify the tough mucus and make it easier to expectorate. It has been wesefully in many epidemics For sale by ail cough be used sued and is safe and sure, denlers, AT STORES, Butler. coum cass 0 | EQN coer FRODUOE Potato. ... oem i GRAIN MARKET, Wheat i OBR waren labor saver, The The GEARLESS AS NO gears ff and cause the hay whether ut chewing up, ut the seed which up onto the wagon ; watchman ¢ Gearless is sold on its merits, because it ne it from ver fails to perform the 0 keep In England in 1014 un men of Influence consideration and served the following pasiorates : ; ine. TH : } RIDE. Ai WOrk Freeport, Armstrong Co. ; Westmore- Gearless will pick up and | rows and hayeocks which other machir es cannot handle. land charge, Westmoreland Co. ; dup- tingdon, Huntingdon Co.; Fourth Lutheran Church, Altoona, the and Uupion county. For eleven years he also conducted a printing esiablish- ment and Lutheran book supply io Pittsburg, servivg at the same tinue as a supply pastor iu the littsburg Luth- eran Synod. In his work he was al ways a conscientious and faithful pas- tor, laboring unseifishly for the inpter- ests of the people whom be served, and worked often with his bands ip building and repairing churches. The funeral services were held from his late residence, Wednesday morning, and after interment in the Union cemetery of the same piace, services in memory of the departed, were held in Trinity Lutheran church, where the Rev, J. F. Hertmsn, D. D. , of Poliadelphis, nesisted by other ministers paid trib utes to his faithful service aud usefu: life. Most of the members of the Central Peon’a Bynod were in attend ance, showing their respect and the high esteem in which they held him who has been called to his reward. David Fye, aged sixty-eight years, pine months and nineteen days, died at his home at Colyer on Saturday eve- ping. Idolerment was made at Zion Hill, Tuesaday morning, Rev. O. Mar- tin, pastor of the United Evangelical Association ghoreh, being the officiat. ing minister. He bad been a sufferer from dropsy aud heart trouble for several years, and also suffered from » paralytic stroke, ‘There survive the deceased a wife, nee Catharive Leichty, also one broth- er, William Fye, and one sister, Mrs John Shutt, both residents of Nittany Valley. ———————— SU A—— Figguresqae Moors, Imagine « thia, tail, bearded, clean ent Individual, black halr and eyes, his complexion ranging In color from that of the negro to Cagcasian falr- ness, clothed In richly embroidered undergarments, over which gracefully fali the folds of a finely woven halk or jellaba, his stockinged feet shoved into yellow slippers, on his shaved faced a red fez, about which Is wound # syotiam white turban—and you have ® type of the town Moroccan—the Moor. The coarse browa Jeliaba of camel's or goat's halr, sometimes handed down through several generations; oc- caslonally sandals and a small, tight fitting woolen cap make up the cos tume of the countryman, although one finds him oftener barefoot and bare headed, head shaved, save for the lit tle cne which characterizes the Berber pnd Kabyle, who belleve that at the gst day this will be used as a sort of udle with which they will bé hauled up to heaven, He 1s often a nomadic trader and mrranges his journey so as to be at the town on certain market days, and at these timed one may see these men, with thelc goods on heavy draft cam. ms or pverlonded donkeys, steadily trudging thelr way gyer the rough caravan trafis, oy bam thelr hate existence, indeed, which may be swept away in a moment by =wbun- tain brigands or the town robbers, who often sit in high places.—Charles to get turned to parliam submissive to the roval w James I. The three chief of 1614 were Lords : and Neville. They the chief speakers and men of influ ence In parilament that ir the side of the king. it success, Then there I 1] in Ireland in 1608. They were and Scotch colonists sen land and were each allott of land. They and undertook to pay a mark a for every six acres and ¢ recusant for tenants: hence as applied to them But neither the histories nor the dictionaries give any reason for calling the men who bury our dead undertakers. 1 S158) acres men of capital Jear n admit no o the name There is no real need of anyone be- ing troubled with copstipation Chamberlain's Tablets will cause an agreeable movement of the bowe's without any unpleasant effect, Give them a trial. For sale by all dealers. BE INDEPENDENT! The tmised busses man oF woman independent for fe We secure sitions for all gradusten. JMB stadents lash year Bookkeeping, etn, Piizaaa or Grege Eharihand, lstler Taal. eet Jd rin ot arvisen Loown, Write for Pron; soetins and Mua sind Sommer rates, PFHILADE ria? BUSINESS COLLEGE a3 Chestuat oe. have the job to do over again. design, which is alse Sre-provf, CENTRE Also, Crushed Lime Stone Better tear down the wood appearance and a few in quality and concrete. HALL, PA, and Brick, and metal beams, “unloaders,” Lr —— mn, Ln —— cured in from three to four days by applying Chamberlain's Liniment and observing the directions with each bottle. For sale by all dealers. WOOL WARNTED~1 will pay twenty: fire outa | for good unwashed wool nipping Lemont, Pa] D KELLER, H( CRY TE WOOLEN MILLS, i § same si once. 8, W, sMITH HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR WOOL.~The undersigned will pay the highest oash prices Jou Wot of mj grids. Consult with him be fore selling, no mater whether you have a Sug dr amin} quantity, ~JOHN CO. ROSSMAN, Sout Sania, aud & duo of trait. a Gesiraoi Cos ed | way and lot consists of — Lawns, Percales,
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